Today's Opinions

To the editor: The effort to get some kind of healthcare for all Americans that will work, as well as the various systems throughout the industrialized world, seems to be running into a lot of less than sensible opposition. I’d like to address some of this:

Would a system that covers every American cause government bureaucrats to make medical decisions for doctors and their patients?

To the editor: I don’t know where I was when Carolina Shores seceded from the United States and suspended the Constitution. I may have been at the dump (excuse me—recycling center) when my freedom of speech was taken away and my right to public discussion was abridged.

I believe this action was tried some time ago when discussion was outlawed and certain people were described as a cancer on the community. I hope we all remember what a difficult situation that left us all in for many years.

To the editor: Calabash commissioners, in particular Emily DeStasio and Cecelia Herman, have continually misrepresented what has been going on in Calabash. They even have made the comment concerning the age group of 30 that the norm is to cheat and falsify resumes. I resent that, as my daughter, who is a federal attorney and graduate of Georgetown Law, is going to be 30 in September and has never lied or cheated to obtain a job or grade.

To the editor: In interest of transparency and full-disclosure, your piece on the healthcare rally at Rourk Gardens could use a little fleshing-out.

Like dozens of similar “spontaneous” gatherings of “grassroots” organizations intent on blocking desperately needed healthcare reform, the driver behind the wheel of the Americans for Prosperity bus that rolled into Shallotte is a guy named Tim Phillips.

To the editor: The N.C. puppy mill bill has again been ignored. I am disappointed in N.C.’s legislators. Elected officials are more interested in organizations with lobbying efforts (NRA/AKC) than the interest of voters.

The taxpayers of N.C. will pay for the cleanup of these mills. The breeder will make money by selling puppies. The puppy mill dogs will continue to live a life confined, without basic care until they can no longer produce puppies. Then, they will be taken to your local animal control, where you–the taxpayer—will pay to euthanize them.

To the editor: This is in response to Jean Crowley’s letter regarding Mayor Selby and about discord in Carolina Shores.

Ms. Crowley worked for the town for 42 months, 17 of them with Mayor Selby. She did not work with him for three and a half years. The implication she did is a good example of the misinformation circulating in Carolina Shores.

After observing the disharmony in our town, I ask this of elected officials and candidates for office: